You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Transportation Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transportation
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Transportation
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Transportation Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Transportation
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Transportation When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Transportation
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Transportation Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transportation Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Transportation
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Transportation Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Transportation
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Transportation
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Transportation "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Transportation "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Transportation
